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Dec 29, 2012

Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens

"For almost two years now,
Kiera's boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she's ever wanted:
loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. When they head off to a new
city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at
a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. Then an unforeseen
obligation forces the happy couple apart.Feeling lonely,
confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera turns to an unexpected source – a
local rock star named Kellan Kyle. At first, he's purely a friend that
she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their
relationship. And then one night everything changes...and none of them
will ever be the same."

What I thought about it... (second time)

Do I seriously need to explain anything about Thoughtless? If I say Kellan Kyle,
would we, girls, be on the same page? And finally, is there any other
indie novel that's more popular than this book? Answer would be "No,
there is not!"

I believe that most of you had
already read S.C.'s story about Kiera, Danny and Kellan. There are few
who didn't find it special and even used strong words like "hated it",
but deep down, all of you have to admit that your heart starts beating
faster when you remember the rock god and his D-bags.

I have confession to make - I have soft spot for S.C. Stephens
and her novels. My "infatuation" goes that far that I even menage to
tune out all of the things I usually find annoying when it comes to
indie authors. Hell, this is second time that I've read it!

Last summer my biggest problem was the cheating part and Kiera's
actions in the last third of the book. I wasn't comfortable reading
about infidelity - I am extremely jealous and possessive type. But now,
probably because I got over it after reading second book, it wasn't that
bad. Someone described Thoughtless as melodramatic - well, it
is. It's story about love triangle with ordinary girl, Australian stud
and bad boy with rock band who sleeps with everything with... Ugh,
what's the polite word? Vagina? On 546 pages! Others said that it was
too repetitive. I have to agree. But maybe because of that, story was
kind of believable. Relationship isn't rushed, you see every aspect of
it. Maybe it was over the top in the end and some parts could have been
written differently - but I still love this book. Lets hope that Simon and Schuster found good editors and that they wouldn't just "repack" it and push it back on market.

S.C. Stephens knows how to make good plot - she pulls you in the
fictional world and makes you feel everything her characters are
feeling. Now, I have to stay true to myself and take out my bitchy pen.
Writing could have been so much better. She uses too many adjectives,
there are unnecewith ssary dialogues and lot of "described
conversations" that should have been written as dialogues because they
were important part of the story or character development. Kiera is
"blushing deeply" at least three times on one page. That type of
repetitive writing was my biggest problem, this time, with Thoughtless. God, I hope that she got really good editor. I'll be waiting for S&S edition just to see what they will do it.

Third book, Reckless,
should be out on March 5th next year. I know, we have to wait extra
three months. Meanwhile, all you fans can buy T-shirts, mugs and what
not on official web shop: Kellan Kyle's Merch Shop.

I've actually not heard very much about this book-- and I haven't read it either. I'm not so sure about it, even if you did love it...repetitive JUST KILLS ME. I would die, seriously. It does sound good other than that, though. Fantastic review, girly!